Italian Sausage and Fennel Rigatoni

March 20, 2021/in Italian/by Belinda Masters

Ciao friends! I wanted to share with you a favorite pasta recipe today…it comes from Ina Garten’s cookbook, Cooking for Jeffrey. She calls it Rigatoni with Sausage and Fennel.

Of course with most recipes I tweak them to my personal tastes. In this case I chose to add sliced button mushrooms, doubled the amount of fresh garlic and doubled the amount of red pepper chili flakes from her original version.

The sauce is amazing! I like to call this type of sauce a “pink sauce”. It combines wine, cream and a bit of tomato paste…which all together has a lovely light pink color.

I promise you that your friends and family will want this over and over again.

Click on the link below for Ina’s original recipe and feel free to do what I do by tweaking the spices, garlic and adding some quick cooking veggies, like mushrooms to the dish. Buon Appetito!

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/rigatoni-with-sausage-and-fennel-1-4622116

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About Belinda Masters

After several years of posting my cooking and eating adventures on Facebook and with a lot of encouragement from my foodie friends, I took the plunge into blogging about one of my lifelong passions. I began helping in the kitchen when I was old enough to stand at the sink and rinse fresh vegetables from our garden.

My mother is an excellent southern cook, having grown up in Tennessee. Without a doubt my fondest childhood memories are of she and I making home cooked meals every night for my father and four brothers. During my college days I would often cook Sunday suppers for my roommates. When I married, my new mother in law introduced me to an amazing array of different cuisines. She had collected hundreds of cookbooks over the years and told me that if you can read you can cook! During our first year of marriage (1985) my husband Alan and I decided to form our first Supper Club. Four couples would meet monthly for theme dinner parties. We’ve done just about every conceivable theme from a Hawaiian Luau to a reenactment of the final dinner served in First Class aboard the Titanic! I’m happy to say that we’re in our 35th year of supper club adventures. Couples may have come and gone, but my husband and I carry on. Besides all things food, my other passions are my family, faith, travel, gardening, tennis and enjoying my new semi-retired lifestyle. Now let’s get cooking!!!

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